Corn Salad

Corn Salad

a number of plant species of the genus Valerianella of the family Valerianaceae. The plants, which include V. olitoria, V. eriocarpa, and V. dentata, are cultivated primarily in Western Europe and the United States. The leaves are used in salads.

Although most of the fall-planted naturals will be bolting by mid-spring, some--particularly corn salad and claytonia--will suffer little or no loss of quality other than the inevitable decline in production.

These days, if you go out for a meal at any decent restaurant and ask for a side salad or a Caesar salad or even the infamous 'Waldorf salad' of John Cleese fame, they will contain a variety of the following and more besides: toasted almonds, roasted sunflower seeds, nasturtium flowers, rocket leaves and flowers, radish in variety, beetroot in variety, peppers in variety, chillies or chilli flakes to give it a bite, corn salad, mange tout peas, sweet corn, white cabbage, grated carrots, red lettuce, mizuna, red spinach, basil leaves, coriander leaves and seeds, apple, melon, seedlings of mustard, cress, beetroot and bean sprouts, let alone a good home made salad dressing.

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